I started work on a shoe shine box today. Sometimes I am thankful that I can have awesome wood with which to work. I threw a little denatured alcohol on it to get an idea of what it will look like.
I glued up the panels and dimensioned the external pieces.
Slow progress today. I had to do emergency surgery on the Shopsmith Mark V - the lower gear ratio mechanism decided to start grinding on the motor. So I was only able to finish cutting the dovetails on the side panels and the rabbets for the top and bottom. The stopped dados will have to wait until later. Oh … and I finished the removable shelf.
After I took it out of the clamps, I gave it a light sanding with 80 grit. Then I ran it through the table saw with a depth set to about 1/16" from the thickness of the walls. A handsaw was able to complete the cut.
When cutting the rabbets to inset the lid and base, I decided not to pay close enough attention and routed on the wrong side. I didn't want to remake the part so I refit the pins and tails. The problem was that it created a 1/4" gap in one of them. I was able to rip a small piece of stock to the appropriate width and glue it into place. After it dried, the flush saw and sanding made it barely noticeable.
this is coming along very nicely. My very first woodworking project was a shoe box I built as a cub scout project about 65 years ago. Neeless to say, it wasn't anywhere near as nice as yours.
When it was finished I filled it with a couple of cans of almost empty shoe polish, some rags for polishing and an old brush. Then I went and positioned myself outside our local supermarket. At the end of the day I had enough money to buy a set of shoe brushes, new cans of wax and some nice rags to polish with. I spent a lot of time that summer shining shoes for 10cents a pair, although I usually got an extra 15 cents as a tip. The housewives would bring me their husbands shoes so I could shine them while they shopped. I used some of the money to go swimming at our local pool almost every day after 'work'.
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